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Two funny stories about Hirsch

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In Reply to: RE: Michael Fremer then launched into an ad-lib impersonation... of Julian Hirsch. posted by John Marks on June 08, 2024 at 16:17:04

First one came from Frank Van Alstine

Another is a third party story but from a reliable source.

"No, Julian isn't on the take, he just can't hear."

And his clueless spirit lives on at ASR. ;)

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Thank you! - John Marks 16:16:28 06/10/24 (1)
Interestingly enough, for whatever reason, or, it just worked out that way, Museatex decided that the first review/slash/article on the Melior One would run in AUDIO, not Stereo Review.

My supposition back then was that in view of the fact that Stereo Review ran covers alternating music-related-topics with equipment-category covers, a cover with only a shot of the Melior One would have looked hinky.

But Audio did that all the time. Also, there was a big Sidebar of a technical paper written by Museatex's loudspeaker engineers, and I had reason to suspect that Museatex paid the usual per-page advertising rate for those pages to run.

A charming speaker, actually. I sold my pair to some lucky chap when I was sued for Divorce.

I think at the end of the day, Julian Hirsch served the purpose of demonstrating the limitations of the "one-eyed, color-blind meter reader" as Audio Critic, paving the path later trod by JGH and HP.

john
- RE: Bose 901's - pbarach 07:07:40 06/12/24 (0)
  I heard these when they first came out and, as Van Alstine commented, I "didn't know how to listen." This was in a local mid-high audio store, and they played Solti/Chicago Don Juan. The apparent vastness of the soundstage was what impressed me. Fortunately, I couldn't afford those speakers and didn't buy them.

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